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6386 :: Is there a command line one-line to start an HTTP server using Nim?

• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T07:44:45+02:00] view original

  Using python, one can trivially fire off an HTTP server to serve the files from the current directory using:

  Run

  Is there an equivalent one-liner for Nim?

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2020-05-28T08:21:31+02:00] view original

  i've build one, but it needs some love (especially the part where ip addresses are queried from the os) https://github.com/enthus1ast/nimAsyncHttpTools/blob/master/src/simplehttpserver.nim

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• bung (orginal) [2020-05-28T08:37:48+02:00] view original

  https://github.com/bung87/nimhttpd you can try my fork version httpd support serve file through file system, memory zip, file zip.

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T16:14:04+02:00] view original

  Hello, I cloned your repo and did nimble build. It failed with this error: http://ix.io/2nA6/text

  I am using the latest nim devel.

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T16:21:13+02:00] view original

  OK, it builds find after uninstalling zip and doing nimble install zip@#head.

  So the correct fix is:

  1. Cut a new release of the zip nimble package
  2. Cut a new release of your finder package with updated zip version in its dependency
  3. Finally update your static_server package with updated finder version in its dependency

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T16:24:02+02:00] view original

  ok. .now it compiles, but doesn't run:

  could not load: libzip(|2).so(|.4|.2|.1|.0)

  I'll have to figure this out later. I am using an admin managed OS, a very old OS: RHEL 6.8 (Linux).

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T16:25:25+02:00] view original

  The aim of my post was if there's a way that Just Works for kicking off an adhoc server, like python3 -m http.server does, and then have that baked into nim as well.

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T16:29:05+02:00] view original

  I tried your repo as well. I cloned it and did nimble build, but it failed with this: http://ix.io/2nAa/text

  It looks like the psutil dependency needs to be updated for a backward incompatible change that happened in nim 1.0.0. Now we have isDigit taking only char arg, not string.

  I'll open a PR on psutil to fix this.

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• jackhftang (orginal) [2020-05-28T16:30:00+02:00] view original

  In case you just need the original nimhttpd like python3 -m http.server, run nimble install nimhttpd to install the binary and then run nimhttpd every time you want to serve static files.

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T16:37:14+02:00] view original

  Awesome! That is the winner!

  @Araq It would be now cool to bake that into nim :)

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T17:46:14+02:00] view original

  After https://github.com/enthus1ast/nimAsyncHttpTools/pull/2, simplehttpserver compiles and runs well on my machine (RHEL 6.8).

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2020-05-28T17:57:44+02:00] view original

  @bung You do not have an Issues section on your fork. I wanted to ask you if the dependency on libzip can be made optional? (See my message above ). The original nimhttpd builds and runs fine on my machine (RHEL 6.8), but trying to run your fork fails as I don't have the needed libzip.

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• bung (orginal) [2020-05-28T19:18:26+02:00] view original

  make it depends on libzip optional sounds nice, user may not need full features.

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• miran (orginal) [2020-07-06T14:05:47+02:00] view original

  So the correct fix is:

  1. Cut a new release of the zip nimble package

  After three years, there is now a new zip version :)

  zip is now at version 0.3.0, and it contains some recent changes, with the biggest one being this PR: https://github.com/nim-lang/zip/pull/60

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• dom96 (orginal) [2020-07-06T16:19:37+02:00] view original

  Please please tag new versions. It's not enough to just bump the version in the .nimble file.

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